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Scores of E-Government Sites
Vie to Court Public Opinion

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John DodgeSpecial to The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition

Updated April 11, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

Medical and health-information sites, now in the early stages of a shake-out, were all the rage last year. New ones seemed to pop up every week, claiming they would revolutionize everything from medical records to prescription drugs.

This year could be deja vu all over again with political portals, whose ranks have swelled in the past six months. With the same boldness as the medical sites, these political portals, also known as e-government sites, say their emergence means politics will never be the same. Their big promise...